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3. Thomas Cochrane: From Disgrace to Freedom Fighter
3 January 20243/3. After a meteoric rise to fame, Cochrane finds himself in front of a court and stripped of his titles for fraud on the London Stock Exchange....
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1. Thomas Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander
3 January 2024Dan tells a story as dramatic, unlikely and exciting as any ever penned by an author about one of Britain's greatest sailors. Thomas Lord Cochrane...
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Napoleon's Penis & Other Iconic Body Parts From History
2 January 2024Perhaps without you realising it, history is marked by iconic body parts.
From Frida Khalo’s monobrow, to Queen Victoria's swollen armpit,...
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The Romanovs
2 January 2024The Romanov family were the first imperial dynasty to rule Russia, reigning from the early seventeenth century until the Russian Revolution of...
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The Tudors & the American West Coast
1 January 2024In the summer of 1579, Francis Drake had to land in a ‘fair and good bay’ on the western coast of the New World when his ship - The Golden...
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Tudors in Love
1 January 2024From Henry VIII declaring himself as the ‘loyal and most assured servant’ of Anne Boleyn to the poems lavished on Elizabeth I by her suitors,...
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How To Keep Fit in the Middle Ages
1 January 2024If your new year's resolutions include getting more exercise, drinking less, or eating well, you might be surprised to know that medieval people...
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Exploding Kings & Red Hot Pokers: Gruesome Deaths of Monarchs
1 January 2024Edward II died by red-hot poker. William the Conqueror exploded on his way into the coffin. Mary II went down covered in so many pustules she was...
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Fall of the Aztec Empire
1 January 2024The Aztec Empire was a large and sophisticated one, stretching at its height from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico. But in August 1521,...
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Zeus
31 December 2023Zeus, the chief deity in Greek mythology, is the Olympian god of sky and thunder, and is king of all other gods and men.
His tale is one of...
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The Slave Revolt That Created A Country
29 December 2023Haiti was under French colonial rule in 1791 when the revolution began, resulting in the largest and most successful slave revolt in modern...
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Prohibition
28 December 2023On 17 January 1920, the 18th Amendment came into effect in the United States. It made the manufacture, sale and transportation of 'intoxicating...
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